Slasher-comb.



No. 818,560. PATENTED APR. 24, 1906.

I A. E. RHOADES.

SLASHER COMB.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 7,1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALONZO E. .RHOADES, OF HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO DRAPER COMPANY, OF HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORA- TION OF MAIN E.

SLASHER-COMB Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 24, 1906.

Application filed August 7, 1905. Serial No. 273,006.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALONZO E. RHOADES, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Hopedale, county of Worcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Slasher-Combs, of which the following de scription, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of a novel comb intended more particularly for use in connection with Slashers, whereby an increased number of warp-guiding dents are rovided without increasing the number of sianks or feet which cooperate with the means for sustaining and governing the lateral position of the .dents and also whereby increased lateral support is provided for the warps to maintain them properly spread as they pass to the beam.

The novel features of my invention will be fully described in the subjoined specification and particularly pointed out in the following claims. 1

Figure 1 is a front elevation, centrally broken out, of a comb embodying one form of my present invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse section thereof on the line 2 2, Fig. 1, looking toward the right; and Fig. 3 is a horizontal section through the dents on the line 3 3, Fig. 2, showing how the capacity of the comb can be increased for opening out the warp.

I have illustrated my present invention in connection with a slasher-comb case of well known construction, inasmuch as my invention is particularly adapted for use in connection therewith.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, the base 1 of the case, having a longitudinal recess 2 (see Fig. 2) to receive the feet or shanks of the warpguides, the rotatable right and left hand screw threaded adjusting shaft or rod 3 mounted in usual manner, the sleeves or nuts 4, controlled by the rod 3, (only one of the sleeves being herein shown,) the coiled springs s 8, arranged in pairs and attached at their ends to the nuts or sleeves, the longitudinally-extended guides 5, passed throu h the springs, and the longitudinal slot 6 in the top of the comb-case, may be and are all substantially of well-known construction and operate 1n usual manner.

The warp guides or dents are usually made as thin fiat metal strips havin their lower ends or shanks extended througli the coils of the s rings, their upright upper ends rojecting t rough the cover of the case an const1- tuting the dents, one for each shank.

It is sometimes desirable to provide an increased number of dents in order to effect a better and more complete separation of the warps, and also in other cases to increase the resistance to the lateral pull of the warps as they pass through the dents, and by means of my present invention I am enabled to attain both objects without increasing the number of or enlarging the guide-shanks which cooperate with the springs.

Referring to Fig. 2, I have shown one of the warp-guides in enlarged side elevation and consisting of an elongated shank 15, having its upper end bifurcated or branched to present two upright dents 16 17, the former being shown as a prolongation of the shank and in the same plane. The'dent 17 is separated from dent 16 in a fore-and-aft direction, leaving an opening 18, and it is also laterally offset (see Fig. 3) by means of the bent neck 19. connecting the dent 17 and the shank. The warp-guides are made of flat sheet metal of proper thickness stamped or struck out in any suitable manner, the bendin of the neck 19 bringing the two dents on each shank into parallel but laterally-separated planes, and when the device is in use two parallel rows of dents will be presented, as shown in Fig. 3, the dents in one row being located opposite the spaces between adjacent dents in the other row.

Notwithstanding the fact that the number of dents has been doubled by the construction described it will be manifest that the number of parts of the warp-guidescooperating with the s rings has not been increased. Referring to Fig. 3, it will be seen that the warps w are led through the clearance-spaces 18 and that other warps w are led between the pairs of dents, giving a more complete separation or division of the War 5, which is at times very desirable. The ouble-dent arrangement is also very efficient in ma1ntaining the yarn spread laterally 1n the slasher, the dents having sufficient strength to properly resist the strain exerted by the warps.

My invention is not restricted to the precise construction and arrangement shown IOC and described herein, as the same may be modified in various particulars by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and sco e of my invention.

Having ful y descrlbed my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is v v 1,. In a comb of the class described, an elongated base, warp-guides each comprisin 'a shank having a plurality of upright and faterally-ofl'set dents, and means. to sustain and laterally position the warp-guides.

2. In a comb of the class described, a series of warp-guides each com rising a shank having two upright, separate flat dents laterally ofiset from each other and in parallelism, and means to sustain and laterally po-' sition said war -gu1des.

3. In a com of the class described, a series of warp-guides each comprising a flat shank bifurcated at its upper end to present two flat dents havin their inner ed es separatedfsaid dents belng laterally 0 set and one of them forming a continuation of the shank.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a metallic warp-guide for combs, comprising a shank having two elongated, separated dents thereon laterally ofiset from each other,

5. As a new article of manufacture,.a metallic warp-guide for combs, comprising a flat shank bifurcated at its upper end to present two flat, separated dents laterally offset from each other and in arallelism.

6. As a new artlcle of manufacture, a meshank bifurcated at its u per end to .present two flat, separated dents. aterally offset from each other and in parallelism, one of the dents formingla pr'olon ation of the shank and lying in t e same p ane therewith.

7. In a comb of the class described, an elon-.

gated base, lon :tudinallyextended coiled in each row, are rigidly connected, and means cooperating with the shanks to support and laterally position the dents. v In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. 'Q ALONZO E. RHOADES. Witnesses: 1

GEORGE OTIs DRAPER, .ERNEST W. Woon.

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